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The situation of the country, as it stands, is not very enviable. There is hardly any government department which, at one time or other, has not been on a strike or not gearing up for it. Beside the NHS nurses, paramedics, technicians and call handlers, Border staff, postal workers, driving examiners and railway workers are also in a mode of striking. The strikes in tandem with the cost of living, interest rate rises, homelessness and illegal boaters make much of the population reeling. The NHS and Social Care were already teetering on the brink before the strikes.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister has given a short shrift to the demands of the sapient nurses, paramedics, and other strikers. His laissez-faire approach to the issue is set in stone. He insists it is the job of the Independent Pay Award Bodies.
If you suggest to the PM that the situation is so grave, he should either declare an emergency, form a national government, or announce the general elections, or at least just talk to the nurses, he hears in one ear and out the other.
How does he do this? The answer is at the end of this short story.
In June this year, Boris Johnson was gasping in vain for some support from his friendly MPs and ministers, including Rishi Sunak, who was his appointee as a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he was stabbed in the back by Rishi putting him out of his misery. It did not take long when there was a vacancy for a job of the Prime Minister. It paved the way for Rishi to try for it.
How did it occur to him to stab his boss in the back at the nick of time? The answer is given later.
Rishi Sunak was a serious contender for the top job. He could not get the blessings of most of the Tory membership. Liz Truss was declared the leader of the Party. She did not shake her hand with Rishi though he was sitting next to her. As a Prime Minister she seriously fell into error and appointed Kwesi Kwarteng as the Chancellor, who believed the rich should get richer and the poor get poorer. He did not stay long and left leaving the position of Liz untenable.
How did it happen and so suddenly? Please wait a bit more for the answer.
In the next selection process, Rishi Sunak and his backers put a kibosh on the chance of Penny Mordaunt becoming the leader of the Party. She was clearly the favourite with the Tory membership. The membership was flagrantly disenfranchised, and Rishi Sunak was declared the leader of the Party unopposed and became the Prime Minister.
How did it happen?
It did not take long when Sir Gavin Williamson, the cabinet minister, and the staunchest supporter of the PM, was ousted. The PM was saddened. Another PM’s mate, Dominic Raab, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Justice Secretary, is limping on borrowed time. The PM would be more saddened on his departure. Also, he knows that in his cabinet there are professional backstabbers, ship jumpers and aggrieved ones. Many MPs are likely to remain unsated. My advice is that he should look over his shoulders.
The country is facing colossal problems and the PM cannot trust all his cabinet ministers, nor his MPs. He was not selected by the Tory Party members, nor elected by the voters at large, but interestingly, he is carrying on as a self-seeking, self-willed, and self-possessed leader.
Now I come to the answer to the question: How does he do that?
According to a recent interview, the PM said that every evening before going to bed he and his two children pray.
His prayers are assuredly bearing fruits. It was his prayers which provided him a reasonable chance to become PM after overcoming so many incredibly significant obstacles. He thinks that due to unflinching help by his prayers, the problems would soon turn into ephemeral ones and disappear.
It may be safely said that he is running the Party and the government on a wing and a prayer.
It is not that everyone’s prayers are answered. Since the invasion of Ukraine, my wife prays incessantly for the downfall of President Putin. But he has since appeared to be healthier, happier, and more aggressor, throwing challenge to his haters ‘get me if you can.’
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Ps: Next post will be published on Sunday 22nd January 2023 at 11 am. It is titled: I bet that for years to come, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, would be a constant pebble in the shoes of the Royal family.
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